Ruby Roja

I had to spend an afternoon at the children’s hospital A little boy, IV in hand, walking out of oncology in an N95. His parents behind him, unmasked. Something about that moment I can’t shake—the smallest person in the room holding the most responsibility for his own safety.

More war crimes 👇

Four months after George Orwell published 1984, his former teacher sent him a letter. Aldous Huxley had one message: you described the wrong dystopia. 🧵

Orwell described a nightmare you would recognize. You'd feel the boot. You'd know the cage. That tangibility is what makes resistance possible. Huxley described something harder: a cage you'd furnish yourself, and call home. The most dangerous tyranny needs no enforcement, because the population enforces it voluntarily. Look around. Which dystopia are you living in?

Gaza levelled, snipers on elevated mounds built from the pulverised earth, shooting anyone who crosses an unmarked line, including children. What word would we use to describe the concentration of a people into a small camp under threat of death?

Residents across West Northamptonshire are beginning to feel the impact of the Reform administration who have only been elected for one year. After the budget was pushed through last month, the impact of the budget is now coming to fruition. Here are some of the things they've introduced through West Northants Council 👇: 🔶️ Reform are charging people to use our Country Parks, including in West Hunsbury in my ward.🌳 🔶️ Removed free parking on the weekends in out Town Centre, whilst increasing parking charges. ❌️ 🔶️ Are charging blue badge holders to park at WNC car parks 😳 🔶️ Increased Council Tax, but failed to collect the bins on the same day (you couldn't make it up). ♻️ 🔶️Increased green waste bins charges. 🚮 What they haven't done is cut waste, stop the boats or reduced Council Tax, as they promised in their LOCAL election leaflets in May 2025. Welcome to a Reform run administration 🙄😤

All due respect, but Lynch is part of the problem here. However much criticism is directed at Starmer, the failure to recognise that the Labour Party itself has fundamentally and irreversibly transformed into a party of corporate interests, Thatcherites and warmongers gives legitimacy to its agenda – as well as undermining effective opposition. Fine to not be a Green, but frankly insane and inexcusable for someone of his level of influence on the Left to continue supporting Labour.

'I have pleaded not guilty. In Great Britain, accurately describing an ideology as supremacist is not a crime.' 'The prosecution calls my speech "terrorism". I call it solidarity and principle.' Free Palestine. Free Britain. Central Criminal Court. 24 March 2026.

There is nothing antisemitic about supporting the Palestinian people.

We made it all thanks to Paul, who drove us for over an hour! @SunderlandAFC, find this fan and give him whatever he wants #SAFC #NFFC

Be a shame if violent criminal grifter Danny Tommo was charged with inciting disorder in Epsom after spreading lies about gang rape by migrants.

POPE LEO CONDEMNS ISRAEL: “I carry the image of a Muslim child killed in Lebanon, who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said "Welcome, Pope Leo," and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. I cannot be in favor of war.” 🇻🇦🇮🇱

Wow !!🤩 Safe journey home to the 2599 #NFFC fans who made the journey to Sunderland tonight. Great support once again !

"I just know that my mum would've been really proud of that one" 🥺 Elliot Anderson on his goal in Nottingham Forest's thumping of Sunderland.

We know how you define "defending your country". It means the mass slaughter of innocent people, including this 8-month-old baby. The truth, is you have already lost. The world despises you. And one day, this evil will finally be ended.

Since Children in Need was introduced in 1980, child poverty has risen from 20% to 31%.

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts. In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention. Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it. This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it. nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/…

Breaking: Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg and Judith Butler are among 132 writers and public figures who have today written a letter to the Court of Appeal reading simply: "We oppose genocide. We support Palestine Action." An unprecedented challenge to the illegal government ban.

So are we going to see national news coverage of the fact @reformparty_uk are running a candidate in Saltwell (Gateshead) who is a former BNP member - a vile racist, antisemitic and extreme fascist political group? No? Nothing? Not interested in potentially dangerous fascists?